Hello?

[Dargo]

I just wanted to post here. I completely failed to ever 'get a room' in my life. It was either my car (remember the old Camaro's with the 'birth control' hump in the back seet?), or in my college room. Then I bought a house and got married. So, who's up for getting a room? Would it be a first for anyone else?

 

[muleman]

What are you wearing sweety? It would be a first for me too.Try a VW beetle some time.

 

[bczoom]

I'll have to think about whether I've ever gotten a room but have a good one that just occurred.

Was out mowing the other day and near the property line, I found an empty trojan wrapper as well as a couple used condoms. Damn... zipped all that through the mower. That had me stop my forward progress so I could do a mental WTF. I looked around and sure enough, there's all the grass laid down next to my neighbor's transformer (one of those green box versions). Sure enough, that's where they were doing the dirty, right on the transformer. Then, I got a nice laugh when I found the culprits cell phone laying in the grass.

Took the phone and gave it a nice wipe-down (who knows...) and tried to fire it up. Dead. Well, it has been raining quite a bit. Waited awhile and gave it a charge. It fired up to a password screen so I said the heck with it. Last Saturday, the cops were at the party across the street so I figured it came from a guest at that house. Drove up to their house and put it next to the door. Later that day, I heard the kids doing a lot of hooping and hollering so I guess it belonged to one of them as the posse probably got word that the phone was returned so they all had to go back to the house.

 

[XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq]

I'll have to think about whether I've ever gotten a room but have a good one that just occurred.

Was out mowing the other day and near the property line, I found an empty trojan wrapper as well as a couple used condoms. Damn... zipped all that through the mower. That had me stop my forward progress so I could do a mental WTF. I looked around and sure enough, there's all the grass laid down next to my neighbor's transformer (one of those green box versions). Sure enough, that's where they were doing the dirty, right on the transformer. Then, I got a nice laugh when I found the culprits cell phone laying in the grass.

Took the phone and gave it a nice wipe-down (who knows...) and tried to fire it up. Dead. Well, it has been raining quite a bit. Waited awhile and gave it a charge. It fired up to a password screen so I said the heck with it. Last Saturday, the cops were at the party across the street so I figured it came from a guest at that house. Drove up to their house and put it next to the door. Later that day, I heard the kids doing a lot of hooping and hollering so I guess it belonged to one of them as the posse probably got word that the phone was returned so they all had to go back to the house.

You got some work to do on your perimeter security!

 

[muleman]

You got some work to do on your perimeter security!

He already has the camera setup!

 

[XeVfTEUtaAqJHTqq]

He already has the camera setup!

Well apparently it's pointed in the wrong place.

 

[Dargo]

What are you wearing sweety? It would be a first for me too.Try a VW beetle some time.

A "Super Beetle", yes; regular Beetle, no. A Triumph TR8, OH YEAH baby!!! It had a reasonably large center console that LOCKED. Whilst taking a leak in a truckstop restroom with my girl at the time, someone left the condom dispenser open! I had the devil on one shoulder saying 'Get 'em before the next guy does!' and the angel on the other shoulder saying 'That's stealing!'. Sorry angel...

I'd say that I got well over a hundred of them and, at 17 or 18, my girlfriend and I made a deal that we'd use every one of them because 'it was a sign'. Hell, that's what she said, I wasn't gonna argue! Anyway, we started back to a 70 acre plot of land with reasonable car trails through the woods on to get started only to find out that my parent's next door neighbor had put up a friggin gate right at the creek bridge you had to cross to get on the property!

Well, that was at least a half mile off the road and you could see anyone with lights on coming for at least a quarter mile, so "at the gate" became a nightly ritual. The passenger seat would lay back and the foot room wasn't all that bad. What a deal! Better yet, there was one of those damn holly trees right next to the gate post. What better place to fling used rubber? Wrappers got lost at McDonalds trash or wherever. They weren't any big issue to pack around after use. Heck, it became a game to see how high I could get them to stick on that friggin holly tree. Holly tree my arse, it soon was a regular rubber tree!!

As things would go, my best friend (the son of the people who owned the property) was dead tired at football practice after school one day, which was unusual for him. When I asked him why, he said he had a million stab wounds from a fucking holly tree because his mom and dad found one by their gate that was "absolutely fucking covered" with used rubbers! He said he was on a 10' folding ladder plucking the nasty things off until nearly midnight while his parents sat in their Cadillac with their brights on so he could see.

Is it bad that it wasn't until about 4 years later in college on a drunken night that I owned up to how that tree became a rubber tree? Darn if I wasn't lucky too! About 6 months after I broke up with her (we'd long since run out of those rubbers and I was spending my hard earned money on them again) that she ended up with child by her next boyfriend!! She had him her jr year of high school. No way possible it was mine. First, timing was months off and second, the new boyfriend (who she is still with - a match made in heaven) said he didn't have any money for rubbers and, besides, he didn't think they worked anyway. I'm friends with her on FaceBook and she was at my house last summer for our 30th reunion and brought her 31 year old son and 4 grandkids!

 

[muleman]

Wife had a Karman ghia when we got married and it did not have the room of a beetle. She was running around in her undies in the greenhouse today. If I did not have that stinky fish emulsion going to the hose she kept threatening me with I would have bent her over the potting bench.

 

[Doc]

Damn, I never thought of it that way but, I've never got a room (successfully) before I got married. I'll admit I did actually get a room once but it didn't work out. So does that count? GF and I were not on the same page .....or in the same ballpark. LOL.

Plenty of experience with Chevelle's (66 convertible 73 SS) and a 72 Rally Nova. Those back seats are huge compared to Cameros & Firebirds.

 

[muleman]

Doc, my second car was a 58 Olds Super88. That thing had a back seat I could lay across with both doors closed. Was a total tank that needed 2 bumper jacks to change a tire.

 

[Dargo]

Wife had a Karman ghia when we got married and it did not have the room of a beetle. She was running around in her undies in the greenhouse today. If I did not have that stinky fish emulsion going to the hose she kept threatening me with I would have bent her over the potting bench.

My wife's name is Carmen. I spent an obscene amount of time and money restoring one for her and even had a company make the script on the trunk lid spell her name instead of Karman. Still never scored with my wife in a car!

 

[joec]

Yes I've gotten a room since I owned Corvettes when I was dating and up through my last child was born. Now the first time you try it on the hood might cost you a lot more than you can imagine so a room was always cheaper for me. Though I did trade my vette for my brothers 51 Nash once in a while. Now that was a cheap date too to say the least.

 

[300 H and H]

Joec, Great old car that Nash, my uncle had one in the early 60's and I still remember riding in it. We used to call it the torpedo..

I used to get rooms each time. But being single till I was in the mid 30's, I had years to operate. As for cars, The hood was out of the question as it was my 72 Trans Am and it had a shaker scoop and there was no way even for that I was going to risk denting the hood in...The trunk lid has a sharp edged spoiler to keep you from going to the rear...during college I stopped doing that for a room instead. Everthing was better in a full sized bed.

New Years eve in Chicago in a blizzard on Rush St., the Girl friend durring colledge and I got it done in the back seat of the old T/A. Frosted the insides of the windows up so bad I used the scaper on the inside to see to drive to her house later...

I made the mistake of telling the wife of this and the fact that we had never done it in my old car. She was P.O.'ed untill I told her that was a wrong that need to be made right...Then she cooled down a bit! She made promises, but I am still waiting....

Regards, Kirk

 

[Doc]

Kewl old cars.

All this reminishing reminded me of this tidbit. Remember back in the mid to late 70's when vans were cool (ie: the song Chevy Van). I was in college on the GI Bill and had a few bucks. I went by this car lot and there sat a 57 or 58 Chevy panel truck / aka deliver truck. It was old and beat up. I bought it for $300. It ran. I had some fun with that old thing. Wanted to restore it but didn't have the cash, so I cleaned it up the best I could. Worked for me at the time. The gals were not near as impressed with it as I was.

I don't have any pics of my old one but I rounded up some pics thanks to the internet. They were neat old vehicles with loads of possibilities. Mine was like the blue on pictured without the white ....it was all that fugly blue.

 

[Cowboy]

Kewl old cars.

All this reminishing reminded me of this tidbit. Remember back in the mid to late 70's when vans were cool (ie: the song Chevy Van). I was in college on the GI Bill and had a few bucks. I went by this car lot and there sat a 57 or 58 Chevy panel truck / aka deliver truck. It was old and beat up. I bought it for $300. It ran. I had some fun with that old thing. Wanted to restore it but didn't have the cash, so I cleaned it up the best I could. Worked for me at the time. The gals were not near as impressed with it as I was.

I don't have any pics of my old one but I rounded up some pics thanks to the internet. They were neat old vehicles with loads of possibilities. Mine was like the blue on pictured without the white ....it was all that fugly blue.

That looks kinda familiar Doc.

Heres my 57, on a ton and a half 4WD chassis. Nothing perty about this one, but kind of a fun project, my wife calls it "the whale"

 

[pirate_girl]

There is this guy in town who drives one of those old vans similar to what Doc and Cowboy posted.
It looks to have the original paint on it (red body, white top) with big silver bumpers.
He uses it for his Mr. Fix-It business and always has his lab mix dog riding along.

 

[Doc]

Way Kewl Cowboy. That sure has potential. I bet it would be a fun project that would last for years. How long have you been working at that one?

 

[Cowboy]

Way Kewl Cowboy. That sure has potential. I bet it would be a fun project that would last for years. How long have you been working at that one?

Off and on (mostly off) 8 years or so. I'm kinda slow.

 

[muleman]

Doc, we had a bunch of those When I worked for the school district back in early 70's. Some had windows and some did not. They were excessed Military staff vehicles they got on some program through the Army Depot. They were not fast but very rugged.

 

[joec]

I remember going to Sebring for 12 hours race they hold there every year. It was the first year my wife and I was married. Well if you haven't ever been there are few rooms available in the area so you camp out at the track which is like a large party starting about a week before the actual race, getting bigger nearer the race it gets.

At any rate there was an old Buick Hurst that had been setup next to us. It was lavender color with purple satin interior. Really a nice rig and the logo on the side of the doors was 4 cherries with one broken and the words Virgin's Doom under that. I often wonder if it lived up to its name.

 

[Danang Sailor]

Had a '64 Opel Cadet wagon. The front seats were plain impossible; not even a contortionist could manage that space.
However, with the back seat folded out of the way there was plenty of room for an air mattress and sleeping bag!
Convenient no end!!

Oh, and it worked pretty well for trips, too!